Vipul Goyal is an
Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at CMU. Previously, he
was a researcher in the Cryptography and Complexity group at Microsoft
Research, India. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Univ of California, Los Angeles in Dec 2009. He received
his B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute
of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.

Dr. Goyal is a
winner of several honors including a 2016 ACM CCS test of time award, a
Microsoft Research graduate fellowship, and, a Google outstanding graduate
student award.

He was named to the
Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list of people changing science and healthcare in
2013. His research has received media coverage at popular science publications
such as MIT technology reviews, Slashdot, and, Nature news. He has given
invited lectures at places such as MIT, Princeton, and, IIT Delhi. He has
served on program committees of conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt
and ACM CCS. He has published over 60 technical papers at top conferences in
cryptography such as at Crypto, Eurocrypt, STOC,
FOCS, and, ACM CCS. He also holds 2 international patents.

He is broadly
interested in all areas of cryptography (and in theoretical computer science in
general).